Two suns of the Southwest : Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the 1964 battle between liberalism and conservatism / Nancy Beck Young.

Author
Young, Nancy Beck [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2019]
  • ©2019
Description
xiii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    American presidential elections [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "Two Suns of the Southwest: Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the 1964 Battle Between Liberalism and Conservatism explores the 1964 presidential election and its legacy for modern American politics. The contest was simultaneously a showdown between liberalism and conservatism and between Lyndon B. Johnson and Barry Goldwater. Two more unlikely messengers could not be envisioned. Johnson's liberalism was suspect among east coast liberals while Goldwater's conservatism was far to the right of what had been normal in previous decades. Both suns of the Old West, they advocated distinctly different versions of what the southwest and thus the country could be if it but orbited their worldview. One looked nostalgically backward and the other boldly forward. The election of 1964 has in the decades since come to be seen as a definitional contest whereby Americans deliberated between two distinctly different visions for the future. To provide an additional twist, the losing candidate's vision has become much more central to American politics while the winning candidate's vision has grown stale"-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-266) and index.
    Contents
    • The myth of Republican moderation in the 1950s
    • A new frontier for the Democratic party?
    • A Republican civil war begins
    • Pyrrhic triumph or extremist victory?
    • "That was Lyndon Baines Johnson!"
    • Backlash, frontlash, smearlash
    • "Government is not an enemy of the people. It is the people"
    • Appendix A: Republican primary results
    • Appendix B: Democratic primary results
    • Appendix C: General election results, popular vote totals 1964
    • Appendix D: General election results, electoral college totals 1964
    • Appendix E: Lyndon B. Johnson's inaugural address, January 20, 1965.
    ISBN
    • 9780700627950 ((hardback))
    • 0700627952 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2018059049
    OCLC
    1066121396
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